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This item posted at the request of Woody Henry for the Paleontological Society
Norm Macleod
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THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY SHORT COURSE
"SILICEOUS MICROFOSSILS"
Organized by:
Charles A. Blome, Patricia A. Whalen, and Katherine M. Reed
GSA Convention at New Orleans, Louisiana
DATE/TIME: Sunday 05 November 1995, 08:00 am to 05:00 pm.
PLACE: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center -- Ashland Room
ENROLLMENT: Session to hold 292 people, first-come, first-served.
COST: $15.00 per person (includes Short Course Notes).
CONTACT: Charles D. Blome, U.S. Geological Survey, P.O. Box
25046, DFC, MS 919, Denver, CO 80225-0046, (303)
236-5682,
E-Mail: <cblome@greenwood.cr.usgs.gov>.
CONTENT/FOCUS: This short course will highlight recent advances in studies
of siliceous microfossils and their role in biostratigraphy, sequence
stratigraphy, and paleogeographic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions.
Contributions of many of these fossil groups in developing current climate
models will also be discussed. The course will cover chrysophytes,
ebridians and endoskeletal dinoflagellates, silicoflagellates, freshwater
diatoms, Cretaceous and Cenozoic marine diatoms, and Paleozoic through
Cenozoic radiolarians and sponge spicules.
Course content is of interest to biologists, geologists, paleontologists, or
anyone who needs to be better informed about current concepts in siliceous
microfossil paleontology. Like other Paleontological Society short courses,
this session is especially appropriate for those who teach general courses
in paleontology, historical geology, and history of life. The speakers are
prominent experts in their respective fields, and their presentations will
include recent discoveries, controversies, and ideas about the origin,
Evolution, and utility of these siliceous microfossils.
CONTRIBUTORS/ORGANIZERS: Jonathan Aitchison (Univ. of Hong Kong), Jack
Baldauf (Ocean Drilling Program), John Barron, Charles Blome, Platt
Bradbury, and Benita Murchey (U.S. Geological Survey), Kate Duff (Univ. of
New Brunswick), John Ernissee (Clarion College), David Harwood (Univ. of
Nebraska), Donna Hull and Emile Pessagno (Univ. of Texas at Dallas), William
Krebs (Amoco Production Co.), Kevin McCartney (Univ. of Maine at Presque
Isle), Paula Noble (Sacramento State Univ.), Katherine Reed (Washington
State DNR/DGER), J. Keith Rigby (Brigham Young Univ.), Annika Sanfilippo
(Scripps Inst. of Oceanography), Patricia Whalen (Southern Methodist Univ.),
and Barbara Zeeb (Queen's Univ.).
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Norman MacLeod
Senior Scientific Officer
N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk (Internet)
N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)
Address: Dept. of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD
Office Phone: 071-938-9006
Dept. FAX: 071-938-9277
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